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 * The Glass Castle Assignment

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Annotated Bibliography**

Brandon, Peter David. "The State, the Child, and the Imperfect Parenting." __Rationality and Society__ 11.2(1999): 399-418. This paper considers state interventions in families on behalf of children whose parents are negligent. The state faces an `agency problem' when it intervenes on behalf of neglected children because it cannot fully monitor families. //(Ex: The agency can support poor family finically but cannot monitor if the family uses the money on the child.)// (Questions 1&3)

English, Thompson, Graham, and Briggs, Diana J., Richard, J. Christopher, and Ernestine C. "Toward a Definition of Neglect in Young Children." __Child Maltreat__. 10.2.1/5/2005 190-206. Oct. 11, 2006. http://cmx.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/10/2/190. This journal examined the relationship between neglectful child experiences prior to age 4 and child outcomes of this child neglect. The article suggests that the abuse of physical and psychological safety and security can create behavioral problems and tends to impair language. (Question 2)

McElroy, Johnson, Cho, Fields, P. Shapiro, S. Plass, Letellier, Wendy, Hillary, Milyoung, Susanne, Joseph, Peggy, Patrick. __Family Violence__. A.E.II.Series Chapter 3. USA: Greenhaven Press Inc., 1996. This is a book, by numerous authors, that gives wide assortment of information on the subject of family abuse and on the subject of child neglect. There are several sections in chapter 3 which suggest who are the victims of abuse. (//Ex: If women are more vulnerable the child neglect than men.)// (Question 5)

"Neglect." 11 Oct 2006. http://www.safechild.org/childabuse4.htm. This is a webpage, which gives information about child neglect. It also identifies different indications of child neglect and a very informative definition of what child neglect is. (Questions 4&6)


 * Questions**


 * 1) You appeared to look very normal in your wedding picture, what made you change from being normal? Did leaving the air force affect your dreams? When did your drinking problem start, was it before your wedding? Did moving from place to place help you escape from your problems or give you more hope?
 * 2) Were you in a proper situation to support such a large family? Could you respond to everybody’s needs, did you have enough food, proper living conditions and other things of that nature?
 * 3) Were you properly informed about childcare? Did you know what disastrous effects that child neglect and abuse have on people when they are growing up?
 * 4) Did you ever realize the awful impact that your selfish actions were having upon your children? Every day they went to school with no money, dirty clothes, no lunches and had to root through dumpsters to find food. Is that the childhood that you wanted your children to have, Rose Mary?
 * 5) How did the relationship between your father and yourself compare to the relationship with your children? Was your father an alcoholic, negligent, did he have a temper, was he abusive and was he a better father than you?
 * 6) How would you rate yourself as parents and what would you change if you had to do it again? Do you think you were responsible parents allowing your daughter to pet the cheetah?

by Marc, Mark and Alex